F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Wed Jul 17 22:53:38 UTC 2013


On Wed, 17.07.13 11:41, Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) wrote:

> Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:58:40PM -0400, Ding Yi Chen wrote:
> > > You still have not addressed the third party programs and scripts 
> > > that monitor /var/log/messages
> > 
> > A) If someone is installing a program that expects this file, they can also
> > install rsyslog.
> 
> But, at the packaging level, I think it's been demonstrated that 'a program
> that expects this file' is not something we do a good job of consistently
> expressing. That should be fixed regardless of this feature proposal, but I
> think should definitely be a required component of accepting it.

Note that the feature proposal does actually mention this explicitly: we
might need some corrected dependencies in some packages. It's a
needed for the feature but even independently of the feature is the
right thing to do.

Lennart

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